No thread yet? As much as I enjoyed the first episode, I really liked this one even more. There were some really great moments. I'm going to enjoy this series. SP is definitely secure. Benedict Android, the leg stabbing, the online dating, the balls-scanning - loved it all. Also loved the continued nods to Blade Runner (there were many), and the future tech was great: the FlashMasks (or whatever they were called), the license plate scrambler, and the DNA bomb were all very cool.

I do note, with a little apprehension, that although this was the second episode to air, and was billed as part 2 of a two part series premiere, that it appears that this was actually episode 5. Not sure if that's just a production number versus an episode number, or if FOX is airing them out of order, or what's going on...

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I do note, with a little apprehension, that although this was the second episode to air, and was billed as part 2 of a two part series premiere, that it appears that this was actually episode 5. Not sure if that's just a production number versus an episode number, or if FOX is airing them out of order, or what's going on...

I noticed the lead and his partner seemed much more at ease with each other than I expected them to be by the second episode. Airing the episodes out of order would certainly explain that.

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I was amused to note that, just as we learned that they were harvesting skin to make "skin suits", they were also playing that gimmick of watching the heroes breaking into where they thought the bad guy was, and the bad guy responding to an invasion, and then it turning out they were in different locations -- a gimmick used to such great effect in Silence of the Lambs.

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Ha! Right at the beginning of the scene, I commented out loud "You guys are in the wrong place - haven't you seen Silence of the Lambs?"

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I was amused to note that, just as we learned that they were harvesting skin to make "skin suits", they were also playing that gimmick of watching the heroes breaking into where they thought the bad guy was, and the bad guy responding to an invasion, and then it turning out they were in different locations -- a gimmick used to such great effect in Silence of the Lambs.

That has become such a cliche that when you see that setup, you know they are in the wrong place.

In the CCTV world these things really exist. However they are really just crystals that reflect back Infra Red light (Used on CCTV cameras at night only)

While there may be "crystals" sold that purport to do that, they would not be very effective.

There are retroreflector mirrors (basically the inside corner of a cube with surfaces mirror coated) that will reflect light back towards the source, but they would not be effective against most surveillance cameras since most cameras do not emit any light of their own.

What might be effective is wearing a strong IR emitter -- either an IR LED or IR laser with diffuser, with a wavelength in the near-IR spectrum (say, 800-1000nm) so that it is not visible to human eyes but is strong enough to saturate the camera. The trick would be for your emitter to have as much light as possible around 800nm, since the spectrum visible to humans ends around 700-750nm, and a good visible-light surveillance camera is likely to have a filter that cuts out most of the light beyond 800nm. Such a technique would be much more effective against a night-vision IR camera, but that is not what we had in this episode.

According to a tweet from the showrunner, FOX is definitely airing these out of the intended order (and there's another out of order one coming up next week). He said that if they continue to do this beyond the first seven episodes, there will start to be story repercussions but that it's mostly okay for the first seven (so it sounds like it will be getting pretty serialized, which is a good thing in my book). I also read, from someone on the crew, that they had to go back and reshoot a few scenes for episode 2 (which has not aired yet) to allow it to make more sense given the order that it is being aired.

On the one hand, I can understand why a network would want to put certain episodes first - lead with your best foot and all that. On the other, it pisses me off to no end when network executives take scissors and tape to a work of art, cut it up, rearrange the pieces, and say "there - it will work better that way."

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I'm with the majority that ep2 (or whatever ep this is) was better...much better in my book. I was iffy on the SP after ep1, but I'm in completely now. Looks like this could be a lot of fun. I don't get the call backs to the other Sci Fi as I haven't seen a lot of those movies or have seen them SO long ago that I don't remember. I'm getting a bit of a Fringe vibe (good thing).

I notice they're running eps. 5-7 in the 2-4 slots. I bet it took a few weeks for the show to find its way, and Fox didn't want to risk ruining it by having several weaker episodes up front...once a new show loses viewers, it almost never gets them back.

I am really liking this show. I was a little worried about it since it was supposed to premiere SO late, and then we were inundated with commercials for it during the WS, and then they pushed it back even more. But so far I am really digging it.

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